RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 9, 2021
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 268
million at 268,532,172 cases, 21,627,058 of which are active, 246,905,114
closed with 241,605,114 recoveries (97.85%), and cracking the 5,300,000 barrier
5,300,110 deaths (2.15% ))to continue the low trend of increased cases with
increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some
plateaus, dips, and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total
cases now over 50 million at 50,488,757 with 9,831,418 cases of which 14,577 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021)
(back to steady decreases with upticks despite the Delta and Omicron
Variants to .148% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271
peak on 12/31/2020 to 14,694, (serious or critical cases now reported again), 40,657,339
closures with 814,438 deaths (2.00%) and with 39,842,9010 recoveries (98.00%).
Our death rate percentage is .15% lower than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2440 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5991) the new
number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was
a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting;
Bulgaria the new number 2 (4260), Hungary (3768), Romania (3014), Brazil
(2870) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed
by Romania, Argentina (2549), and newly added to the
list Columbia (2496), and slightly better than Belgium (2351),
Poland (2312), Mexico (2261), Italy (2230),
UK (2137), Russia newly added to
list (1959), (Chile (1995), Spain (1888), Ecuador newly added
to list (1858), Portugal (1833), France (1833), Bolivia (1620), Sweden
(1487) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1342).
comparable death rates no longer in easy to report country by country tables)
Tests: No need
to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
US
Vaccinations: As of 12/09/21 475.7 million doses, 2.24 million per day over
last week (3 weeks left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in
California 275,705 per day (which means at least 80% of the
population of California has received at least one shot which many believe is
necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe
that 90% is required). In California 61,422,321 total doses have
been given (85.1% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.2%),
California has not moved from 8th
of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a
percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 64.2% of its population
fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 60.4% and has moved from 13th back to 14th
in terms of the percentage of the population
fully vaccinated compared to other states.
Non CV
News: As the catch and release policies
of far too many leftist D.A.’s across this nation are contributing to the surge
in crimes against property and person, Biden’s pick for U.S. District Attorney
in Massachusetts, who was confirmed with Harris’s tie breaking vote, is
infamous for a list of crimes she will not prosecute which includes trespassing,
shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving
with a suspended license, wanton or malicious destruction of property,
threats, underage drinking, drug possession, possession with intent to
distribute and resisting arrest (just what we do not need for restoring public
safety); Fox’s All America Christmas Tree burnt to the ground by a scumbag
arsonist on Wednesday has been replaced and will be lit today at 5:00 p.m. EDT;
the Blues are at it again to soak the American tax payer by demanding that
Biden cancel the massive amount of student loan debt which too often represents
debt incurred that leads to no jobs and at minimum extend the moratorium on
making payments set to expire in February (questionable whether he has the
authority to do that by executive action and question the advisability of
another action that would be yet another incentive for people not to work); Josh
Duggar, a reality TV personality who falsely passed himself off as possessing
conservative values of faith and family life was found guilty by a jury of
possessing child pornography and faces potentially 20 years when sentenced in
2022 (sick reptilian brains evidently not confined to party lines or ideology);
smash and grab are not the only dangers facing retail outlets and those who
work for them as an armed robber in Houston shot a clerk in the face while
failing to open the cash register and then fled and is at large:
The jury has found Smollett guilty on 5 counts arising out of his false police report of a hoax attack and attempted lynching of him by 2 MAGA hat wearing black Trump supporters and the prosecution is still presenting its case in
the murder trial of Officer Potter who shot and killed Daunte Wright claiming
she thought she was tasing him as Minneapolis girds for the possibility of a
riot if the verdict is not guilty; once again the leftist cabal on The View prove
to a woman they are clueless as they gush over HRC’s reading of the victory
speech she was sure she would deliver, praising her for her “strength and
resilience” and asserting she did win); the chickens of Biden’s perceived
frailty, mental and physical, are coming home to roost as Russian continue to
increase the number of troops on its border with Ukraine; our underfunded and
undermanned CBP trying desperately to protect our Southern Border while the
Biden Administration is pedal to the metal pursuing and “Open Border” policy
has been forced to hold a seminar on “Better Together: A Conversation on Unconscious Bias”; in Oklahoma 79
year old Stouffer was executed for killing a school teacher for insurance
proceeds for which he received the death sentence in 2003 and went down joking
and laughing (how can the death penalty ever be a deterrent when 18 years or
more pass before sentence is carried out?); in wakeup call to bars and taverns
that dram shop laws need to be obeyed and jury in Nueces County, Texas jury entered a verdict of
$301 billion after it found Beer Belly Sports Bar of Corpus Christ guilty of
serving too much booze to Joshua Delbosque, who ran a red light in his vehicle
Nov. 12, 2017, killing Tamra Kindred, 59, and her granddaughter, Ajani
Anderson, 16, as they were traveling home from the pizza restaurant where
Anderson worked (the Delbosque was also
killed in the accident and the sports bar is probably judgment proof so the
award is symbolic only); while biased Biden hacks like Don Lemon posing as a
“journalist” gush over a short term supposed nickel drop in gas prices leave it
to the political cartoonist to portray what drivers really want for Christmas
as Biden’s war on domestically produced oil rages on: 
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through December 8, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4327 persons
shot of whom 758 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a recording link to “The Thing” by Phil Harris, the fact
that you do not engage in skiamachy, and
a quote from Rachel Bachelet on genocide, secure in the
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1. International
Day of Veterinary Medicine—clueless of who created this day or when to
honor those veterinarians who treat pets, farm animals, working animals,
animals rescued and zoo animals to keep them in good health or bring them back
to that state from injury or disease, but the profession is an ancient one
dating back to the Egyptians over 4000 years ago
2. International
Anti-Corruption Day—created
by the UN and celebrated on this day since the passage of the Anti-Corruption
Convention on October 31, 2003 to fight the destructive effects of corruption
on our daily lives and economic development hobbled by bribes and corrupt
contracts.
3. 1950 Number 1 Song USA—the
number 1 song in 1950 on this day was “The
Thing” by Phil Harris on a run of 4 weeks in that position to join 11 other
songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Phil Harris performing
“The Thing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tKZ3flZZY Harris was a
noted singer, orchestra leader and comedian and lifelong friend of Bing Crosby
who performed for some 58 years and died not from “The Thing” but from a heart
attack on August 11, 1995 at the age of 91.
4.
Word of the Day—the word of the day is “skiamachy” which means
conflict or argument with an imaginary opponent which is an appropriate word
this day as Jussie Smollett was found guilty today for his false police report
on the hoax of being attacked and a noose put around his neck by two black
racists wearing MAGA hats in the early morning hours on the cold streets of
Chicago.
5. Practice Makes Perfect But Not Something to Kid About—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1922 of noted comedian, night club entertainer and
actor John Elroy Sanford better known to his fans as Redd Foxx and for his work
in Sanford and Son and his scenes with fake heart attacks and pratfalls
but who while performing on a scene for The Royal Family on October 11, 1991 while
walking behind a chair suddenly fell to the floor which initially caused no
concern from people on the set until they realized it was not a fake heart
attack but a real one that had killed him.
On
this day in:
a. 1948
the Genocide Convention was unanimously passed by the United Nations to make genocide
a crime and from 39 nation who signed the Convention, the list of signatories
has risen to 152 but sadly some 45 nations have refused to do so.
b. 1953
The General Electric Company announced that any workers who were members of the
Communist Party would be discharged from the company.
c. 1979 smallpox was certified to have
been eradicated making it only 1 of 2 diseases to merit that distinction.
d. 2008
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested by the FBI for trying to sell
the Senate seat of Barack Obama being vacated due to his victory in the 2008
Presidential election and after being impeached in Illinois he was sentenced to
11 years in prison but had his sentence commuted by President Trump after
serving 8 years of his sentence.
e. 2016 in a equal rights for women, 2
Boko Haram female school girls detonated their suicide vests in a market area
of Madagali, Adamawa, Nigeria, killing some 57 and injuring 177 innocent
shoppers and shopkeepers, including 120 children.
Reflections
on the persistence of genocide: “Accountability matters – not only because it
provides justice for victims and punishment for perpetrators. It matters
because ending impunity is central to ending genocide. Prevention and
punishment – the explicitly stated twin aims of the genocide convention – can
never be seen in isolation from each other. Punishment is key to prevention.
Impunity is an enabler of genocide: accountability is its nemesis.” Rachel
Bachelet, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights.
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